i think i'll be using lj more. starting to burn out on tumblr a little.
Things I should be working on: my thesis.
Things I am not working on: my thesis.
Next chapter is due in a week, and unlike the clusterfuck that was my last chapter (the first draft was disastrous), this time I don't even have enough research to forge a disaster. I got nothing.
The sad plan is to bullshit a good 10 pages (imagine: 10 pages wherein I do nothing but fill up space), stretch what content I do have into 5 pages, and call it done. Unlike last time, I'd at least submit it to my advisor and my editor with the caveat that I had a shit time with research material. ...Which is true. All of last semester's research proved useless, which is why I'm in this ditch to begin with. Embarrassingly though, the reason I'm still in the ditch is because I haven't even made the slightest effort to get out of it, so at this point, it's just reaping what I've sown (which was nothing, which now has begat nothing).
I pity my thesis advisor. The poor guy has to read and give feedback on my drafts. Let me tell you, if I had to give feedback on my own drafts, I'd say, "Fuck it man, did you even try?" The answer would be No. No, not really.
Three weeks after that, I have to turn in my completed thesis draft--just a draft, not the final. All the same, I'm running a three chapter thesis, and my last chapter? I don't even know what my last chapter is supposed to be about, so this is gonna be fantastic. Theoretically, it's on the effect of a semi-liberalized film industry towards legitimizing an illegitimate government. This is in pretty deep theory because I haven't got research to back that up either--by which I mean I haven't done any research.
In short, I got a date with the library stacks one of these weekends. It's gonna suck.
Things I am not working on: my thesis.
Next chapter is due in a week, and unlike the clusterfuck that was my last chapter (the first draft was disastrous), this time I don't even have enough research to forge a disaster. I got nothing.
The sad plan is to bullshit a good 10 pages (imagine: 10 pages wherein I do nothing but fill up space), stretch what content I do have into 5 pages, and call it done. Unlike last time, I'd at least submit it to my advisor and my editor with the caveat that I had a shit time with research material. ...Which is true. All of last semester's research proved useless, which is why I'm in this ditch to begin with. Embarrassingly though, the reason I'm still in the ditch is because I haven't even made the slightest effort to get out of it, so at this point, it's just reaping what I've sown (which was nothing, which now has begat nothing).
I pity my thesis advisor. The poor guy has to read and give feedback on my drafts. Let me tell you, if I had to give feedback on my own drafts, I'd say, "Fuck it man, did you even try?" The answer would be No. No, not really.
Three weeks after that, I have to turn in my completed thesis draft--just a draft, not the final. All the same, I'm running a three chapter thesis, and my last chapter? I don't even know what my last chapter is supposed to be about, so this is gonna be fantastic. Theoretically, it's on the effect of a semi-liberalized film industry towards legitimizing an illegitimate government. This is in pretty deep theory because I haven't got research to back that up either--by which I mean I haven't done any research.
In short, I got a date with the library stacks one of these weekends. It's gonna suck.